Spoiler: They’re not. They’re postponing. Eventually, they’ll almost all give in to the bullying :(
My primary laptop was Windows 10. Since Win11 was so different in interface, and sucked so much with MS AI+Onedrive force feeding, it was no different effort to switch to a different OS.
I went with a Mac M2 system with OSX as my secondary OS, and Asahi Linux as my primary dual booting. So far I’ve only been in OSX for the initial user account creation and launch of the Asahi installer, but OSX is there to boot back to if I run into something commercially proprietary that simply doesn’t run on Linux.
I’m a couple of weeks into this config so far and am quite enjoying Linux OS on Mac hardware.
I get that. I never wanted to have to go back to Windows for proprietary things. Having a Mac meant I would have OSX to fall back to if needed instead.
I switched to a Mac at work for a while to avoid Win10. So I get that, too. Had to abandon it when IT gained enough proficiency over the Mac to lock it down and make it essentially useless for power users :(
My primary laptop was Windows 10. Since Win11 was so different in interface, and sucked so much with MS AI+Onedrive force feeding, it was no different effort to switch to a different OS.
I went with a Mac M2 system with OSX as my secondary OS, and Asahi Linux as my primary dual booting. So far I’ve only been in OSX for the initial user account creation and launch of the Asahi installer, but OSX is there to boot back to if I run into something commercially proprietary that simply doesn’t run on Linux.
I’m a couple of weeks into this config so far and am quite enjoying Linux OS on Mac hardware.
I’d argue Mac hardware is a tad too expensive for a true Linux, but hey - main thing is that you enjoy it ;)
M2 is from 2022, its used hardware. I’m also pretty sure the OS does really care about the cost of the hardware. :)
I meant to say you have enough performance gain by using Linux that you can run it on cheaper Hardware, that’s all :)
I get that. I never wanted to have to go back to Windows for proprietary things. Having a Mac meant I would have OSX to fall back to if needed instead.
I switched to a Mac at work for a while to avoid Win10. So I get that, too. Had to abandon it when IT gained enough proficiency over the Mac to lock it down and make it essentially useless for power users :(